Phosphorus nutrition of phosphorus-sensitive Australian native plants: Threats to plant communities in a global biodiversity hotspot

Conservation Physiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lambers, Hans ^a   Ahmedi, Idriss ^a,b   Berkowitz, Oliver ^a,b   Dunne, Chris ^a,c   Finnegan, Patrick M ^a   Hardy, Giles St E J ^b   Jost, Ricarda ^a   Laliberté, Etienne ^a   Pearse, Stuart J ^a,d   Teste, François P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^d Astron Environmental Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster roots; Eutrophication; Non mycorrhizal plants; Phosphite; Phytophthora cinnamomi; Proteaceae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983503036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20511434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/conphys/cot010     Document Type: Review

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